I want mountain lion

I cannot upgrade to Mavericks bc parallels is not compatible and I will have to purchase the new parallels and redo all over my microsoft programs.    Its not that big of a deal but I just dont want to do it.   I would like to upgrade from lion to mountain lion for free so I can get imessage which I do not have.  
Any suggestions?
My mac has been running a bit slow lately,  mail does not want to send out but eventually will,  browser takes a while to finally open the page, at times my finder is unresponsive and I have to open a folder on my desktop to get into the finder.  
any and all help would be awesome.  
Corbin.

I have Lion and want to upgrade to mountain lion, but cannot find it. I do not want mavericks.
Mavericks is free, you had to pay for ML. You probably still do if you can get it.

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